Now xawtv opened a small window and I right-clicked for the control panel and played with some settings but still only saw a black display and ??? at the top._________________Thanks! DavidHome page: http://nevils-station.comDon't googleSearch!http://duckduckgo.com
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Ok, to reproduce it, I attached my old Genius VideoCAM Trek again.
I had used that over a year ago for Muppywebcam, but it just could display 4 colours

Now I compiled the required Kernelmodule again for Puppy 301.
It is called gspca (what for you is pwc).

I loaded it (what you did with pwc):
modprobe gspca
lsmod

Then I ran xawtv.
For a moment, I could see a picture - buggy again with 4 colors.
Interrupted, started again.
Now I also just get a welcome-screen from xawtv, and the xawtv is black and has "???" in the title.
I'm not able to get the picture again.

Then I tried:
gmplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=352:height=288:device=/dev/video0
I had to detach the cable first!

And WOW...
I have a CORRECT picture now!
Just a bit dark, but with all colours (and it actually is quite dark in my room)!
I hope in daylight it will have natural colours.
You can see at my hand, that I enlightened using a small LED-lamp, that there are "correct" colours.

So there seems to be a problem with xawtv in Puppy 3.
Please also try mplayer

But it eats lot of CPU, other applications become extremely slow.
Also, if you stop mplayer, I once had to detach the camera-cable and plug it in again, before I could start mplayer again.

OK , I entered the gmplayer string (of course forgetting to disconnect the USB cable) and fired it off - got an error.

Unplugged and re-plugged the USB cable and pressed the play icon in gmplayer and got the rxvt error (below) along with a brief flashing version of it in a pop-up and two tones of green in the gmplayer window.

mplayer just ate so many CPU-resources, as It used the wrong output driver.
If I use "xv", it is fine.
The colors in the dark look better by right-click -> equalizer -> video -> saturation.
Decreased the value.

Muppywebcam will try to load gspca and pwc, then run gmplayer, or if that is not installed, then xawtv.
It will try to not use v4l2, because of the errors edoc and I have gotten.
You can easily modify the sequence of unloading/loading modules with your texteditor in:
/usr/local/Muppywebcam-Puppy301/Muppywebcam

The best will be to run it in a consolewindow by typing
Muppywebcam

Then you can see potential errors.
I'm not at home and do not have the webcam with me, so I cannot test it myself this week.

Please tell me if it works, so that I could add it to Muppy008.3, before I go home.

Sorry for my delayed reply, for some reason the Forum is not sending me notices of new posts to this thread even though I have that toggled on.

Anyhow, I plugged in the camera, loaded the Muppywebcam PUP, then ran it from rxvt as recommended.

This is what appeared:

Code:

# Muppywebcam
ERROR: Module gspca does not exist in /proc/modules
ERROR: Module pwc does not exist in /proc/modules
ERROR: Module sn9c102 does not exist in /proc/modules
ERROR: Module videodev does not exist in /proc/modules
ERROR: Module v4l2_common does not exist in /proc/modules

ERROR: Module v4l2_common is in use by videodev
ERROR: Module sn9c102 does not exist in /proc/modules

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